Does Replacing Toilet Fixtures Save Water?

Thousands of units of low-income housing were retrofitted for energy and water savings through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Still, multifamily housing remains the poor stepsister of single-family housing when it comes to making homes more water efficient. My company, Koeller and Company, studied the water savings achieved with toilet fixture replacements in an urban apartment complex. Because we feel that a sustainable building should be both water efficient and relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain, we also wanted to find out whether these replacements would reduce maintenance service calls.